I'm so over the Brigade.

On the feeds the Brigade speaks to each other in code. BG = The Brigade. GB = goodbye. The Gremlin = Hayden. ND = Brendon (the "N" stands for "needle" and the "D" stands for a part of his body). They use this code right in front of him and then laugh at him when he asks what "ND" means. They plan to become rich and famous after Big Brother by forming a rock rap band and touring the country. They believe this will happen. They want Big Brother to provide them with Brigade t-shirts for them all to wear after they decide to out their alliance to the house. The t-shirts should be black.

I love a good Big Brother devil. Dr. Will is my favorite BB player ever. I loved watching Evel Dick. But Hayden and Enzo aren't good devils, they're just schmucks. They have a side alliance with Brendon that is sometimes real and sometimes not, depending on which suits them at the moment. Instead of feeling like good strategizing, it just seems smarmy. Lane's side alliance with Britney is the only move he's made in the entire game, but he has enthusiastically agreed with the Brigade's wishes to get her out for a couple of weeks now. (Britney, on the other hand, has never said a bad word about Lane -- and even gave up the chance to cut a deal with Hayden in order to protect Lane when Rachel said she would put Lane up as a replacement.) And then there's Matt with his sick wife lie.

I, too, would like to see Matt team up with Ragan and Britney. I think they'd be more loyal to him than the Brigade. To my knowledge, the only lies Ragan has told to anyone in this game were about his true profession and about being the saboteur. Britney's been almost honest as well, not counting promising Brendon safety this week if he didn't put her up. Matt's loyalty may be questionable but his value lies in his ability to win endurance competitions. The smartest (but completely impossible) thing would be for Britney and Ragan to team up with Brendon. He's annoying as all get out, but he seems to be a loyal, nice guy. The problem is he's playing as if Rachel was still in the game.

There have been some entertaining moments. A few nights a week, Hayden, Britney, Ragan, and (formerly) Kathy put on a fake talk show for the cameras entitled "Just The Tip". Kathy, true to form, contributed little and mostly just lolled in "Kathy's Corner". "Kathy's Corner" has been retired on the most recent episode. Also, after the live show tonight, Enzo commented to Matt that it would be a dramatic week. Matt replied, "It will be for you and Hayden, because you have to find a way to crawl out of Brendon's (rear end), where you've been for two weeks now."

Watching the show is entertaining.

Yet, reading these posts is more entertaining.

Thank you for taking the time to write them.

Snort! Now, Britney should have left poor Enzo alone! Don't even (ever) ask me to explain it, but I'm still rooting for him! It frightens me annually, I know - but my judgement about TV people goes flying way out the window when "Big Brother" shows up . Usually, anyway. But, especially this year, Enzo seems so spontaneous and uncomplicated that I'm paying attention. Everybody seems so fakey strategic! They're kidding themselves against the others, who are kidding themselves just as much. Meow Meow (ahem) doesn't seem at all complicated or strategic, in the least! To me, it's working this time? Again, I'm likely wrong (I usually am re: the show). But to be a pawn? And expecting him to do strategic things, now, to ensure his safety? It could get ugly and awkward in minutes. Seems to me that there's NO way that Brendon can't get gone come Thursday. But who do I believe in the most, yet almost expect to screw it up, somehow? That'd be Enzo. Luckily, short of throwing his microphone into the whirlpool and/or throwing bean dip at somebody in a fatal way, I don't see how he can. Brendon's off to Juryville Heaven. And his beloved. With Kathy there to patrol STDs and jailbreaks thereto.

Am I possibly the only one who noticed how wildly the editing affects things, especially tonight? All season long, as far as I've noticed, Lane and Hayden (I'm hoping I spelled them right) have been like phantom nobodies, pretty much. Tonight they get fleshed out -- and two bigger stereotypical doofuses I've never seen! Or so they got presented. Are we, like, supposed to hate them, all of a sudden? Luckily, call-in votes don't figure into BB, o' course. The editing of them seemed way manipulative, just the same.

Laugh wildly at me later, folks, if you will. I'm on the 'Enzo Train' . Never mind that I'm prepared to be on the 'Meow Meow Wheelbarrow' any second ...

I have a dilemma to present to those of you who participate here.

My dilemma is: How spoiled do the rest of you want to be?

"Spoilers" -- as the term relates to television -- typically refers to information from an already aired television show that *you* might not have seen yet. Because I subscribe to the Big Brother feeds, I have information before it airs on TV. And settling in to your favorite seat for the next Big Brother episode, you might want to be surprised.

Should I start another thread just for those of you who want to know all the inside scoop in advance? Or do you want to know on Saturday who won the Veto Competition that won't air until Wednesday right here in this thread?

Until I get some feedback, I'll keep major spoilers that might ruin the outcomes of competitions out of my comments:

I complained in a recent post about a lack of plotting and scheming. Now, it's almost nothing but plotting and scheming. There are so many schemes being hatched I'm starting to have trouble ferreting out which ones are real and which are fake. When everyone starts telling everyone else what they want to hear, it becomes hard to tell who's telling the truth when.

Gats, you can thank Matt for getting Britney to put Enzo up. He was mad that Enzo and Hayden were going to vote him out. He talked her into it with the reasoning that Enzo is the only person in the house who's never been on the block, and besides, he's only a pawn. What they didn't show on tonight's show is that the new 3-member Brigade had talked Britney into putting up Matt as the pawn instead of Enzo. The conversation they showed tonight in the storage room when Britney asked Matt to be the pawn happened seconds before the Nomination Ceremony, so she didn't have time to regroup.

I'm not sure it was smart of Britney to go back on the deal she made with Brendon last week to stay off the block. He honored his part of the deal, but she did not. Brendon is really hating on Matt and Ragan right now due to their treatment of Rachel, so she may be off his radar briefly. But I don't think he'll ever completely forgive it, and I doubt she'll get his vote if she makes it to Final 2. But she's friends with everyone else in the house and she despises Brendon, so she didn't have a lot of options.

You bring up an interesting point about the editing process, Gats. I'm sure it's a huge undertaking to try to show days of houseguest interactions in one hour and have it all make sense. Some houseguests are portrayed quite differently on the show than they are in daily house life -- and obviously the producers give better edits to their "favorites". I think Lane and Hayden haven't been seen on the show that much because they really don't do too much that is interesting. But there is an awful lot of stuff that goes on that never makes it to TV, and that's what I have to find out if you guys want to know.

Speaking only for myself, I'm fine with those spoilers from the 'feeds'. Let me be more clear: I crave them ! I feel very certain that the shows on network that we see are very manipulated/edited ~ and we thusly get to miss a lot of what's really going on. But, again, I speak only for myself. Not sure how anybody else feels about it. I paid for that privelege one year - and it ultimately fell flat on me. Every time I plugged in, the house was sleeping or brushing their teeth, or whatever. Not so interesting (despite the few cents it cost to watch). I don't get too excited watching myself doing daily maintenance in the mirror, yet I should some complete stranger to me?! But I DO remember, too, that I might pop in and something very interesting was happening once in a while. I say: "Fill me in!", though, on spoilers.

Oh ... and *ugh*. I get a sense from your post, Starfish, that Brendon might have gotten the POV? Just guessin'. If so? My personal hunch is that Matt prob.ly won a few thousand bucks, as a result. I keep thinking it: Brendon is a good player in challenges (betrayed as he's doomed to be otherwise, because he's not all that crafty, IMHO) but he's sunk in a jury vote up against anybody. Mr. Matt, much as he disturbs me, is a smart player, though. And he sure as heck has Paul Lynde () on his side. Shouldn't be too hard to make that work to his advantage ...

I actually look around at the spoiler message boards on the CBS site all the time, I don't mind if we talk about them here, going to find about the veto ceremony later on today.

Thanks for your input, Monarch! Anyone else have an opinion?

I have no objection to your posting whatever you wish.

The more information the better.

An option that people use on the TVGuide website that might be useful here is to type *spoiler* or something similar and then leave a bunch of lines before and after the spoiler so that it's easy to just scroll past without accidentally reading something you don't want to.

I love to read everyone's posts, but I don't really want to know about actual comp outcomes until they air. I like all the other gossipy stuff though.

That's just my 2C, but I'll be happy with whatever everyone else decides. I just won't read until after the show airs.

That's an idea. I can put un-aired spoilers in a quote box -- then it will be easy to tell what not to read.

Well, tonight should be interesting with the big Double Eviction.

I for one will be happy to see Matt go. His gameplay this week has disgusted me. They showed on last night's episode Ragan discovering that Matt had thrown him under the bus. That's understandable in a last ditch effort to save yourself. But when Ragan confronted Matt, Matt gave him a much more innocent version of the story and has assured Ragan he will NOT get out of the house and find Matt lied to him! Considering he's a self-described "diabolical supergenius", it's taken Matt an awfully long time to realize that he's no longer a member of the Brigade. Once he finally realized he'll be the one going home, he began trashing Ragan to the Brigade, trying to ensure he'd be the next out. I think what he was trying to accomplish was to make the Brigade feel Ragan is dangerous and they need to keep the diabolical supergenius to help them get out this danger. But it came off as simply a really mean thing to do to someone you call your friend. While I'm no fan of Ragan, I don't believe he'd ever have backstabbed Matt.

What they sadly did not show on last night's episode was the long conversation between Britney and Brendon while they were chained together. Everyone -- houseguests and feeders alike -- anticipated that in their 24 hours of being "chums", the two would strategize. Matt and Ragan tried desperately to "talkblock" the pair, and refused to leave them alone for hours. After keeping the feeders awake all night, Britney and Brendon finally had a conversation in which they agreed to become allies! Their stated plan was to continue as if they hated each other to keep their new alliance under the radar -- and because of this even the feeders cannot tell if this alliance is real. It seems as if everything went back to the status quo after the pair was unchained. Sometimes we all have to wait for a Diary Room session to be shown on TV to find out what's really going on.

Another interesting thing we found out this week: The producers urged Britney via the Diary Room to put up Hayden rather than Matt as the replacement nominee. The houseguests are not supposed to talk about their Diary Room sessions but they frequently do, and we usually get a snippet before Big Brother cuts the feeds. It's never shown on TV how much the Diary Room attempts to influence the houseguests, and sometimes it works and sometimes not. One of my favorite game-changing moments, when Eric and Jessica suddenly flipped and aligned with Dick and Danielle in Season 8, was completely engineered by the Diary Room (aka "The Invisible Hand"). I can see why the producers would prefer to keep Matt over Hayden. I cannot think of a more boring Final 3 to watch than Lane, Enzo, and Hayden.

Since he became bald, Brendon seems to be quickly becoming the underdog favorite on most of the sites I've visited. I've liked him a great deal more without Rachel. I'd like to see Brendon and Britney as the Final 2. The rest of these people are making me tired.

I agree it is Matt's biggest mistake to try as hard as he has, leaving so many options for himself open. At any point if pushed, like this week, where in the end he showed loyalty to the brigade by trying to get Ragan under the bus, just not as hard as the rest of the brigade was trying to get him under the bus. He did make a huge mistake not breaking his Ragan/Britney side alliance last week. If he has sent Britney home, which was the smart play rather then look to far ahead to jury votes, instead of Kathy, he would be just fine and Enzo would have been HoH.

The way the whole Veto ceremony was set up, it was easily manipulated if CBS wnated to. I am hearing the people in producation are giving advice as you mention in Diary room sessions. I seriously wonder if they are offering side money to the houseguests who have power, to do as they ask.

I couldn't stand the bending over backwards for Chima, Natalie etc. last year and am suprisingly less thrilled by the "Invisible Hand" as even the houseguest have alluded to, having such a big part.

Anyone who has tried to win anything, gets targeted, not my favorite way to see who becomes the winner.

I sat through the entire BB couples season, which was done in the winter during the writers strike, and compared to that one, this one is a bit better.

I still have no one I am rooting for, nor do I know what any of these houseguests truly think, just how they react, lie and misdirect.

I will give credit to Enzo, Lane and Hayden, they have worked well to get Matt to be the one leaving this week, the first non HoH elimination I will say they organized.

And just like that two of the more interesting and certainly most deserving houseguests to win it all were evicted in Matt and Brendon. I wouldn't say either one was shocking but I now have a hard time figuring out who should win this thing. I hope Ragan ends up winning HOH so he could break up the brigade, he may be winey some times but he is smart, he was suspicious of them ever since Kristen was evicted a few weeks back. Man I hope something big happens but I'm not sure anything will with these 5 left.

It seems the only thing that could keep the game interesting would be for Britney or Ragan to get out at least one member of the Brigade. Otherwise, the Brigade is the majority in the house and the season becomes quite predictable. I fear that the previous 2-3 weeks may be the most excitement we are going to see this season.

At this point, I feel I can only root for Britney and Ragan ~ if only to even things up and add some much needed drama for the next couple of weeks. I'm hoping that things don't get as boring as they seem to have the potential to be. One potential for drama that BB has not enlightened the TV viewers to: Hayden told Enzo and Lane that he took the Hawaiian vacation and $5000. Britney is extremely upset that someone took prizes instead of trying to win POV. Britney thinks it was Matt. Ragan's pretty much figured out it was Hayden, but Britney doesn't believe it. This is information Enzo and Lane can use against Hayden when push comes to shove.

I agree with BX's comment about the winter season fiasco (Big Brother 9) -- that was by far the worst season ever, and I hope it remains so. However, this season is destined to be one of the less memorable of the series. Even if they pulled out all the stops for the next 3 weeks, I don't think they'll ever live up to the best of the bunch ~ specifically, BB2 (Dr. Will), BB6 (Janelle vs. the Nerd Herd), BB7 (All-Stars), and BB8 (Evel Dick). Those were the most memorable for me, anyway. Last year was pretty good, too.

I've been hanging out waiting, as the HOH competition is presumably taking place right now. Supposedly, they want to be finished before After Dark comes on at midight Eastern time.

Most certainly Dr. Will, Boogie, Janelle, Evel Dick (who also had the best BB twist I have seen yet during his season in the Original Americas Player, so much was changed by that twist and the player playing the part well and the adding three people that knew each other that season was good too) are the cream of the crop for houseguests.

I am starting to notice that Britney is a Serious Rat in the house and is unknowingly feeding the Brigade with the information they need to make better moves. Her retelling of key conversations meant to stay between her and the other person, have caused at least a couple of houseguests to end up on the serious outs with the rest of the house and then get sent home.

The discussion here has been about as lively as this season of Big Brother.

I'm finding it hard to generate much interest. I keep an eye on the updates but haven't turned the feeds on in a week. Ragan will almost certainly be going home this week. So this entire week is pretty much nothing but everyone (the houseguests and us viewers alike) sitting around and waiting for Ragan to go home so we can get on with it.

Things should turn mildly interesting next week. This is the week when the Veto winner holds all the power, and only one person will cast the evicting vote.

From things I've been reading, it appears that the Brigade may be the second most-hated alliance in Big Brother history ~ with the Nerd Herd aka The Friendship being first. I don't think the viewers find them vile and annoying as they did the Nerd Herd gals, it's just that they're so impressed with themselves when they haven't really done anything in the game.

I'm finding myself reminiscing about better days, when houseguests concocted elaborate schemes, made power moves, engineered stunning turnarounds! We need alliances like Chilltown with their hilarious phone calls, players like Will Kirby who practically run the entire game, and brilliant plans like Nakomis' Six-Fingered Plan.

I need a thrilling season of Big Brother, one where I can't wait to find out what's going to happen next. I haven't felt that way since Season 8, so I'm way overdue!

My ode to this season.

Feel free to improve it or write your own.


Here's a story of Miss Britney
Who was badmouthing three very psycho girls
Some of them had hair of gold, like the house mother
The sabateur left first

Here's a story of a boy named Lane
Who had a brigade involving three boys of his own
They were four men, living with a secret
They wanted to be all alone

Til' the one day when Lane met Miss Britney
And they knew it was time for the Gremlin to go home
Then this group could sleep all day

That's the way they became the Boring Bunch
The Boring Bunch

Please save us from the Boring Bunch



Am working on rewriting "Safety Dance" as "Floaters Dance". This one is taking a bit longer lol.

This one needs more work, but it's a start.
(Slightly updated)

FFFF LLLL OOOO AAAA TTTT EEEE RRRR

Floater Dance

We can float if we want to, we can hit them from the side that’s blind
Cause’ your friends don’t float and if they don’t float
Then their game is too dangerous to mine

I say that we say what we want to
We’ll sell our souls a million times
Then we can play pocket pool for the entire world
Leave the real fans far behind
And we can float

We can throw competitions when we want to
Keep the blood off of our hands
Then convince ourselves that’s fine

I say we float where we want to
Go down in Big Brother history
Be the most buoyant alliance of all time
PAnd put off the real work while we recline
And we can float

We can backdoor who we want to
Jessie acts dumb but so do I
And we can dress real neat, with our Penguin suit and feet
And if someone comments we can cry

Say, we can pass gas if we want to
If Kathy doesn't clean nobody will
And you can act real rude until you get removed
And I can mispronounce Neanderthal

I say, we can float, we can float
Rachel is out of control
We can float, we can float
She’s has the first HOH room with a stripper pole
We can float, we can float
Everybody go wash your hands
We can float, we can float
Everybody’s fake an alliance

Floater Dance

Is it safe to float
Is it safe for silicone to float

FFFF LLLL OOOO AAAA TTTT EEEE RRRR

Floater Dance

We can dance if the music plays
Lane's Pandora punishment is also mine
As long as we use her, never going to lose her
Send Britney home right after Ragan

I say, we can float if we want to
We can use the DPOV only one time
Cause’ your friends don’t float and if they don’t float
Then they’re no friends of mine

Is it safe to float, oh is it safe for silicone to float
Is it safe to float

Great job! Those are hilarious, Bx!

However, I think it's sad that you are forced to entertain yourself and us when Big Brother should be the one doing the entertaining!

I'm starting to feel I've complained enough for this season -- which is not to say that the rest of you will no longer have to listen to me complain. I'm just saying I'm aware of it.

Britney is the obvious target this week for Hayden and Enzo. I think Lane's true target would be Enzo -- I think he's being honest when he says he wants to take Britney to Final 2, and that would be his smartest move. The jury house is spitting a lot of Britney-hate right now. Plus, Lane commented a few days ago right to Enzo's face that he thought Enzo would win the jury's vote against anyone. I think Britney's target would also be Enzo, for the same reasons. I think Hayden and Enzo are letting the idea of a Brigade Final 3 get in the way of thoughts of the end game. All of those guys should want to be up against Britney at the end.

So, it's 2 people gunning for Britney and 2 people for Enzo. Unless the HOH wins POV, the POV winner will cast the sole vote.

OK -- here comes my first spoiler box of the season. If you don't want to know what happened since the live show, DON'T READ WHAT'S IN THIS BOX! Skip to the next post!

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One week and counting until the end now.

I see CBS has pulled another move to annoy the loyal fans and especially the ones who have bought the live feeds. They cut the feeds the middle of yesterday and supposedly not going to put them back on until after the live show tonight. On top of all this, they somehow with this group have the highest ratings ever, I don't get it.

Well they better get a fresh group of fans, with the way they are making the longer time fans turned off this season.

Yeah they definitely jipped the people who pay for the live feeds and Showtime 2, btw tonight's show is not even live the veto ceremony and eviction were taped last night it's still going to have Julie Chen and an audience to create the illusion of a live show. Word on the Big Brother message boards at CBS is that next year will be an all star edition again. If they pick the right players who want to compete and win it should be a great season lately the floaters who do nothing are getting further along in the game. This is definitely the most boring season I've seen of "Big Brother", I started watching back in season 4.

Yes, indeed, the feeds were cut early on Tuesday morning, with a message that they would not return until after the live show on Wednesday. After much speculation about what they would do about the 3 hour Showtime show, it turned out that they filmed some boring footage of the houseguests doing crafts and showed that for Big Brother After Dark. An attempt was made to mollify the feeders by showing re-runs of the feeds from the beginning of the season. But we were especially frustrated by the fact that the final endurance competition took place during the feed blackout. Typically, they show the beginning of the competition on the live show and then we get to watch the rest of it on the feeds. It's one of the primary reasons people pay for them. There seemed to be no logical reason for the extended blackout. The feeders knew days ago that Britney would be the one to go.

This is probably my second least-favorite Big Brother season. Season 9 (the winter one) was the worst for me.

I had not heard about next year being another "All-Stars" but after this season, it would be a godsend. I had expected them to wait until season 14, but since I worry about cancellation every year, the sooner the better!

And that would have been a good endurance competition to watch all the way through too, I for one would be excited to watch those three guys get slammed into a wall for a few hours lol.

I thought it was hilarious that Enzo was out at 19 minutes and then Lane didn't go out until 2 hours and 35 minutes! Typical of Enzo's competitions all summer!

Not much of interest on the feeds anymore. There isn't any scheming or arguing, and all these three ever talk about are how great they are and how famous they'll be after this, their upcoming trip to Steamboat, and sports and other guy stuff.

I think Enzo's goose may be cooked. The other 2 seem to think that neither could beat him in jury votes. It is a hard thing to predict, because sometimes the jury votes on game play, and other years on personal factors. It's true that Enzo is liked in the jury -- mainly because he never made any power moves to make anyone mad. But if I were Hayden or Lane, I'd take Enzo to Final 2 and then make the case with the jury that I'd played a better game. Taking Hayden to Final 2 would be a huge mistake. Unless these guys get a lot smarter within the next week -- and, let's be honest, there's not a lot of brain power there to begin with -- Lane and Hayden will take each other, and I believe in that scenario, Hayden will win.

The invisible hand in the Diary Room has been trying to convince Lane to take Enzo to Final 2. I'm not sure what they've got against Hayden (they also tried to get Britney to put him up when she was HOH), but they may be able to convince Lane considering all the downtime that's left.

I've not been a Brigade fan, but now that they're all that's left, I'm going to have to root for Hayden, as I think he played the best game.

But, honestly, I really don't care who wins... Bring on Big Brother 13!

Couldn't be more ready like you for next season.

The crash these guys will feel when try to work their new "Celebrity Status" will be funny, as well as when they read any of the BB blogs out there.

I think Hayden wins hands down against anyone, he has stepped up and risen above the other two by alot, he won the double eviction HoH, then the Final 4 HoH, that Veto and the first part of the final HoH. It's been all him since the competitors went out.

Lane would be wise to take Enzo if he wins and Hayden would be wise to take Enzo too, at least Lane has Britney campaigning for him in the Jury House, Enzo has no one campaigning for him. In the end it will look reallllll bad on Enzo that he only won one Veto and nothing else all season.